I think it's generally a better idea to first let yourself have low standards, then, once you've produced something, a first draft, bring on the inner critic. Personally, it's too easy for me to never get anywhere because I spend all my time criticizing every start of an idea. If I can finish a bad idea first, then I…

That color change tool is really neat. I'd love to see how they do that, or better yet, try to write my own version.

I was just reading that article this morning... Fascinating stuff. I love when you can actually apply this kind of knowledge in practical situations. Now if only I'd read about this before college, instead of after...

Where's the floppy drive?

Playing Doom on a 5G iPod is awesome. I recommend it.

@Cochese: Tanooki Suit Epic: and the 12 GB of RAM @ 2 GHz can't be too cheap either. Jeez, my laptop has 2 GB of RAM at 667 MHz - updated from 1 GB as of last winter.

Pretty cool. The balls seem to get bigger and move around more when the cursor is moving near them... which makes me wonder if it's some sort of simulation of a Google flavor of particle/fluid dynamics.

I wouldn't be that sad about no video... I can hardly imagine video on a 1.5" screen being worth it. Video on my old 5G iPod was barely watchable. (just because of size; it was very smooth other than that)

I grew up with a Mac, System 7 or 8, I think. The first PC my family owned ran XP Home. Of course, 99% of the computers in my high school still ran Windows 98 by the time I graduated in 2006.

Madison rocks! (my hometown)

@Chubby93: I'd recommend OmmWriter (free) for creative writing, and for coding, one of Coda ($99), TextWrangler (free), BBEdit ($125), or vim, which is honestly my favorite and comes with the mac. Vim runs from the command line, though, and has a fairly steep learning curve.

@Nxqd3051990: amen. I use vim and I love it. I often find myself trying to use hjkl to navigate in browsers and Word after coding for a while. It's also so easy to extend. I added a keyboard shortcut for one project to upload everything to the web server for testing.

@Nxqd3051990: amen. I use vim and I love it. I often find myself trying to use hjkl to navigate in browsers and Word after coding for a while. It's also so easy to extend. I added a keyboard shortcut for one project to upload everything to the web server for testing.

@SKiTz: omg that enrages me every time I hear it. "I'm not a mathematician sir."

Awesome. I'm so tired of everything being so much easier in Office 2007 than Office 2008.

@EatsWombats: Not necessarily. I think you could generate passwords right-to-left, vertically, in rectangular patches, in spirals, etc, so that the search space was significantly greater than just substrings of the rows joined end-to-end.

I like to carry a Parker pen or similar. I don't really see why you need a very small pen, I don't wear baggy jeans or anything, and there's plenty of room in my pockets for a pen. I like to clip it on the edge of my front right pocket so I can quickly remove it.

I've been guilty of using too-easy passwords, though not as bad as anything on that list. On my school account, though, I generate and memorize random alphanumeric passwords with upper and lowercase, with absolutely no semantic meaning.

@Micho: Enable the "Develop" menu (I think it's in Preferences somewhere) then go to Develop - User Agent - Other... and put in the same information described above.

I tend to switch between Chrome, Safari, and Opera on my Mac. I have Firefox, but I haven't used it in forever. It's basically my "use this for stumbleupon and other time wasters" browser that I use occasionally. I might fire it up again, just for variety's sake.